Table of Contents
Phantasm,
vol.
5,
no.
1,
issue
25,
1980
Independent
literary
journal
of
original
poetry,
fiction,
artwork,
articles,
features,
photos,
commentary,
reviews,
interviews,
and
announcements.
Poetry
Walter
Bargen
Fern
Lake
Pyramid
Builder
Tim
Barnes
The
Dance
John
Beecher
Pontiff
of
the
Quarterlies
Frank
Finale
Julio
Horror
Story
Mary
Norbert
Korte
The
Don
Quixote
Memorial
Woodlot
William
McLaughlin
How
the
Novice
Salesman
Traveling
Through
Kansas
Has
His
Gonadal
System
Unbalanced
Luigi
Had
It
from
the
Start
Alice
Connelly
Nagle
Letter
to
an
Editor
Bedroom
Jim
Sagel
The
Dark
Girl
La
Tringueńita
Sueno
Dream
Mataron
al
Willie
They
Killed
Willie
Bettie
Sellers
Jubilee
Eugene
Warren
Christographia
50
Fiction
The Séance at Browning's House by Michael Scott Cain
A Way of Knowing by Irene Tiersten
Burgess Moddell Goes to Heaven by Thomas Tolnay
Features and Articles
CCLM Appoints New Director by Jennifer Moyer (1 photo of Jennifer Moyer). Jennifer Moyer writes about herself and her goals as new director for the private, nonprofit New York City based membership organization, the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines.
John Beecher in Remembrance by Larry S. Jackson (1 sketch of Beecher, 1 reproduction of the Associated Press news article of his death). Jackson writes about the last days of Phantasm contributor John Beecher's life.
King Tut's Famous Father-in-Law by Annette B. Feldmann (2 drawings of hieroglyphics). Story of pharaoh Akhenaten and his great concept called "the teaching" and his poetry, including a short hymn to Aten that he supposedly wrote.
Hopkins' Influences and Philosophy by Michelle Lezie (1 portrait of Gerald Manley Hopkins). Gerald Manley Hopkins' struggle between the self-conscious life of a poet and the the self- negating life of a Jesuit priest is explored.
Oberammergau's "Passion Play" by Margaret Elliott (1 photo of Oberammergau). Review of the renowned outdoor Passion Play portraying the life of Christ every decade in Western Germany, starting in 1634.
The Poet and the Church Madeline DeFrees (1 photo of Madeline DeFrees). Formerly known as Sister Mary Gilbert, DeFrees discusses her attraction to poetry as a means of helping her establish contact with God and absolving responsibility for what others may think of it.
The Soul Adventure: Poetry and Faith by Eugene Warren (1 photo of Eugene Warren). Author explores suspicion and misunderstanding of Christian poets by both Christians and non-Christians, including his beliefs.
Index to Phantasm, Volumes 3 and 4 (12 Phantasm cover reproductions). Index to previous two volumes of Phantasm.
Featured Art Is Block Prints by Paul Feldhaus (1 photo of Paul Feldhaus by Pat Feldhaus). Biographical sketch of featured artist who had some prints also published in Phantasm, vol. 2, no. 6.
Artwork
Paul Feldhaus (12)
Guest Columnist
Dear Larry Jackson by Mary Norbert Körte (1 photo of Mary Norbert Körte). Former nun and author writes about The Force and opening one's self to it every day, observing it, being filled, and emptied by it.
Editorial
I Like Things with Life in Them by Phillip Hemenway, poetry editor. Editor Hemenway declares what bores him are the "fatuous, incestuous discipleships invoked by bad writers to get their stuff read. … Why can't a good poem be allowed to speak for itself?"
Announcements
50 national announcements of literary events
